The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-27
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was born, in 1917, and had lived all his life. He
is said to have stood almost without an equal in
the cultivation of roses.
AMONG the papers of the late King of
Bavaria, it is stated, have been found the manu-
script of two light operas on the style of Auber
written ny Richard Wagner when he was very
young. These, it is added. now TO be pub
liShed under the titles the composer gave them,
Les Fees" and Defence dAimer."
The seller of licorice sherbet is familiFr
object TO all acquainted with life in the East.
lie parades only through the main thorough
iares and business part of the city, Gathering
necessarily the two bright brass bowls in his
rlght hand, The well filled goat skin hangs sus-
pended from his shoulders against his left side,
large piece OF snow at its mouth, little OF
Mhlch he scrapes into the bowl before filling it.
ms trade is brisk, as this cooling, refreshing
drink costs only half a cent bowl
COMFORTABLY to the laws of advance and
retreat of glaciers it is said those in the Valley
OF Chamounix, Switzerland, are now beginning
TO advance The lower extremity of the Glacier
des BLOSSOMS Is mot more than 5000 feet above
the level OF the sea, and is going still lower.
During the past three years this lower extrem-
lCy mas advanced at the rate of fifty yards a
year. IL is SAID that "a grotto cut out or the
Ice IN May 1866, quarter of a mile from the
extremity, has moved down more than sixty
yards"
The steamship Trave, of the North German
Lloyds Line, was visited on her latest voyage to
this country by the Crown Princess of Germany,
and her daughters, the Duchess of Edinburgh,
Prince Louis of Battenberg, Count Seckendorff,
an Others. The Trave had stopped at South
ampton to receive additional passengers from
London, when the Princess, who had been stop
ping at Osborne, seized the opportunity to ex-
anime great steamship. Every portion of the
snip Yves shown the party, from the captain
bridge TO the engine-room, and the Princess ex-
pressed her admiration of the elegance OF the
saloons. Among the passengers by the Trave
was the Chevalier de Hesse- Warbnrg, the geo
graphical sayant and explorer whom the Prln-
cess had met before, and with whom she con-
versed before her departure for the shore
mo little annoyance is felt here" says the
Paris correspondent of the London Times at
the publication in the Blue book on Sir Drum
mond VOLTS mission of a translation of an ex-
traordinary note in Turkish, sent to the Sultan
by NJ. de Montebello on June 49, The Temps
says: Contrary to diplomatic usages this note,
before being Inserted in the Blue book, was not
communicated to our Ambassador at London,
who would not have failed, we are assured, to
point ont certain inaccuracies y Radical news
paper, which daily vilifieS both Germany and
England charges the latter with having pro-
cured the note by improper means, and with
having published document which was not its
property. If, however, the publication was in
discreet the note itself was plainly much more
so, and it would be well for both sides to con-
slider 1t unwritten and unpublished"
WILLIAM F. G. SHANKs, who was one of Hor-
ace Greeley's pets, and his trusted city editor,
puts at rest forever the unjust story that White
law Reid forced Mr.. Greeley out of the Tribune.
MIR. Shanks says it was done by Samuel Sinclair,
the publisher, who told Greeley that the Tribune
had been taken out of the Republican party at
great loss that it was in serious financial straits
that it would be necessary for Horace Greeley
to retire as editor, and that the Tribune must be
sold. Then Greeley went mad and died The
Tl-jE11f cnld bxrG Onto ~ fhsa
Western Union, who had arranged to have
Schuyler Colfax editor. The Credit Mobilier
scandal was sprung on ColfaX and he could not
be editor. Mr.. Reid then borrowed the money
from w. w. Phelps and gained control of the
paper. This is the whole story, and it is credita
BILE to Mr.. Reid.
DR.. d. H. WILLIAMS is the one rich colored
physician in Chicago. There are four other
colored members of the profession, but they
practice solely among their own race, and are
not possessed of any means Williams patients
are as much among the whites as the cclored.
His standing in his profession is so good that he
is one of the salaried staff of the South Side
City Railway Company. DR.. Dan Williams owes
his success largely to the kind-heartedness of
the widow of the whilom Honest John Jones"
She picked him up when boy and gave him a
home He was sent to school, and after work
ing for doctor, studied and graduated from
one of the medical schools with much honor
He Is now the owner of more than a dozen
buildings in different parts of the city. Will
liams is very light but has the race lineaments
His beard, however, is reddish, and cursory
glance would not detect his negro blood.
WHILE the address of the so called Republican
party of Virginia is signed only by civilian
Malone, Chairman" observant Virginians, re-
versing the usual quotation declare that the
hand is the hand of Malone, but the voice is the
voice of John S. Wise, the of the old Gov
ernor who hanged John Brown. John S. Wise
is one of the few able lieutenants whom Malone
enlisted in his earlier fights, who still clings to
the fortunes of that aStute and willy chieftain
He was elected Congressman-a Large on the
Readjuster tidal wave which carried Cameron
into the Governors chair and Riddleberger into
the Senate and expects to be himself elected
Governor in a similar reaction The slashing
onslaught on Gov FitZhuEh Lee, who defeated
him at the last election, is said to be the unmis
taxable production of John S. Wise. Malone is
an organizer a political despot and one of the
shrewdest of all shrewd politicians, but he has
not the literary capacity and dash which this
address eyinceS.
PHILADELPHIA has some addressed and re-
markedly clever men,. A fashionable tailor of
that city says TO the Bulletin: "a party at
tempted neat little dodge on us the other day.
We knew him sufficiently well to take his order
for S35 suit of clothes without requiring
cash deposit. When the suit was made he tried
it On, and declared it did not fit him. He had
numerous faults to find, and finally refused to
take the garments. AS he insisted it was mis-
fit, we could do nothing but put the clothes
away. A week later his son came to the store
and said he would like to see tbs suit made for
the father, with view to purchasing He
tried on the coat, pantal onS and waistcoat and
expressed himself as satisfied that they fit him
well enough to wear. Then he offered us S25
for the suit, saying that inasrnuch as the suit
was thrown on our hands as a msfit we ought to
be glad TO get rid of it at that price. The dodge
was too transparent, and we declined to dispose
of the clothes for a cent less than the original
price
THE report of the Boston Board Of Health for
July shows that in that month the number of
deaths exceeded that of any previous month
since the board was organized. The number of
deaths in Boston was J ,l19, whereas the number
for July, 1886, was only 500. Figuring on basis
of 400,0 900 population, the rate per 1000 inhahi-
tants for the year was 1857 last month The
meteorological statement accompanying the
mortality table shows that the mean tempera-
ture during the month was 73o. 1t was 73o in
July, 1873 and 73So in July, 1876; but in those
years the death rate was not excessive The
comparative humidity, however, is striking for,
whereas in 1873 il was 66.4o, and in 1916 60 40
this year il was 77o, showing the heat of last
month to have been the most oppressive and
fatal of any month for fifteen years, which is as
far back as the table goes Children of course.
suffered severely from the weather. and more
than half of the whole number of Juys dead
were children under years of age, while amost
half were very young infants.
GEN. TcHEENrAYEFF, whom the cable an